Re: [Httplib2-discuss] Best way of retrieving a page as a unicode string?

[Simon W. <si...@si...>]

On 8 Dec 2007, at 22:10, Joe Gregorio wrote:

> Oh, if it were only that simple :) For example, look at the
> charset sniffing rules for JSON (RFC 4627) and XML 1.0
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessing>. You're
> best bet will probably be to use:
>
>    <http://chardet.feedparser.org/>

But surely you can attempt to decode using the charset declared in  
the Content-Type header, and then fall back on the chardet library if  
a decoding error occurs? Or am I missing something really scary?

Cheers,

Simon